Book News – JJ Grafton

Thank you

Many thanks to Laura Lyndhurst for thisin-depth review of Burden of Freedom.

Burden of Freedom : the third book in theAshes on the Tongue trilogy FAMILIES STEEPED IN CRUELTY AND BETRAYALA COUNTRY TORN BY SECTARIANISM Fen Crozier is living in Belfast, homeless and a fugitive from justice. On the last day of 1957, her father, Victor, is hanged for the murders of a Catholic priest and anContinue reading “Sneak Peek at first pages”

A well-plotted character study

You know those family parties you look forward to, anticipating the conversations and conviviality with family and friends – the ones that start off with everybody in a great mood, just enjoying drinks ad ‘catching up’. Then the cracks begin to appear, maybe just a little uneasiness and, before you know it, the murky pastContinue reading “A well-plotted character study”

Burden of Freedom: Launch Day

Now available on Amazon as eBook, paperback, hardback and on KU Fen Crozier is living in Belfast, homeless and a fugitive from justice. On the last day of 1957, her father, Victor, is hanged for the murders of a Catholic priest and an Orangewoman. Fen herself is not completely free from guilt in the murderousContinue reading “Burden of Freedom: Launch Day”

Toes in the sand …

THERE’S A BODY IN MAX DE PAULEY’S GRAVE …BUT IT’S NOT HIS Max de Pauley is dead, seventeen days shy of his eightieth birthday. He is survived by his lifelong partner, Martha Sunday, also nearly eighty. They were bound together, not by a mutual love and compassion, but by events of nearly sixty years agoContinue reading “Toes in the sand …”

Picture this …

Today, I’ve been amusing myself by making advertisements for some of my books. I love messing about in Photoshop and, at one time, I would have been using my own photographs as backgrounds but macular degeneration put paid to that so, nowadays, I’ve made friends with Getty Images instead. Anyway, these are the results ofContinue reading “Picture this …”

Nightshade: Michael Connelly

Location: A small town on Catalina island. Lots of descriptions of the area, name dropping of local landmarks and a mass of boating terms. It’s a first novel in a new series. I get it. But to fill the opening chapters with terminology that will be unfamiliar to most readers makes for a very slowContinue reading “Nightshade: Michael Connelly”

Fill your Kindle for summer!

To celebrate the onset of summer – and I’m convinced it’s going to be a fantastic one – I have reduced all my ebooks to 99 pence until the end of summer. As I have a grasshopper mind, there’s a selection of genres to choose from – or download them all and just go withContinue reading “Fill your Kindle for summer!”

Forever Night

I got a nice surprise when I opened my emails this morning to find Forever Night: Circles of Confusion II featured on the KU Recommended List. Ten years ago, Jilly, Tina and Leon committed a terrible crime.They were never brought to justice.Now it’s payback time. Jilly Graham has buried the terrible events of the pastContinue reading “Forever Night”

Learning to love audiobooks

I’ve recently been forced to move from reading the printed/e-reader page to listening to audiobooks. Initially, it wasn’t what you’d call a roaring success. I quickly realised that most audiobooks stand or fall on the skills of the narrator and there were a lot of voices I just couldn’t cope with, even when sampling triedContinue reading “Learning to love audiobooks”